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A 7 page critique and summary that discusses The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, first published in 1895, is a science fiction classic, the writer argues that this novel is also a remarkable work of social criticism, as it predicts the ultimate effects of the rigid Victorian social class system. A brilliant and multi-layered narrative, in this novel Wells exceeds the boundaries of the nascent genre of science fiction and proves himself to be, as Peter Firchow points out, a "radical innovator," as he is the "first writer of Utopian fiction to argue that the achievement of Utopia will inevitably lead to stagnation and degeneration" (Firchow 123). As this indicates, The Time Machine can be critiqued in regards to two principal viewpoints, as a work of science fiction and also in regards to being a profound social statement on Victorian society. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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class system. A brilliant and multi-layered narrative, in this novel Wells exceeds the boundaries of the nascent genre of science fiction and proves himself to be, as Peter Firchow points
out, a "radical innovator," as he is the "first writer of Utopian fiction to argue that the achievement of Utopia will inevitably lead to stagnation and degeneration" (Firchow 123). As
this indicates, The Time Machine can be critiqued in regards to two principal viewpoints, as a work of science fiction and also in regards to being a profound social statement
on Victorian society. From a science fiction standpoint, in The Time Machine, for the first time in literature an author provides an "up-to-date, technologically and scientifically grounded rationale" for
an occurrence that had previous been imagined only by "means of magic or through some dream vision" (Firchow 123). In other words, Wells provides a rationale, scientifically plausible explanation for
time travel rather than attributing the nature of the time travel device to supernatural or as a pure product of the imagination of the protagonist. The scientific optimism of
the Victorians assumed that everything they did not understand about science would eventually be fully understood and The Time Machine reflects this understand (Merritt 123). The Time Traveler discourses extensively
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he observes in his travels. In this manner, Wells, along with
the French author Jules Verne, established a principal feature of science fiction, which is the way in which speculation concerning science, drawing on the current understanding of science during the
era of the author, is intermixed with an imaginative thought experiment that carries that understanding to a possible future effect. From a literary standpoint, Wells makes his tale even
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